Built Out of Books

Lesbian Energy and Feminist Ideology in Alternative Publishing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3641469
AutoresKate Adams (0000-0002-3292-0966, Allan Hancock College, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume34
Fascículo3-4
Páginas113-141
Data de publicação1998-01-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v34n03_07
PMID9505228
OpenAlexW1595463817
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas15

This paper chronicles the birth of lesbian-feminist publishing in the 1970s, a significant but often overlooked chapter of American alternative publishing history, and one that would help create the circumstances supporting a flourishing lesbian and gay literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1968 and 1973, over 500 feminist and lesbian publications appeared across the country, and what would become an organized network of independent women's bookstores began to appear. In 1976, a group of feminist trades-women-printers, booksellers, and others-would meet in the first of a series of Women in Print conferences that would give a name to the fledgling alternative press movement. Fueled by the energy of the women's movement, lesbians were instrumental actors in a variety of feminist publishing enterprises that, taken together, constituted a unique brand of print activism that illuminated and revised categories of identity; empowered individuals to overcome social isolation and discrimination; and informed nascent lesbian and feminist communities about strategies of resistance

Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Flourishing · Identity (music · Isolation (microbiology · Lesbian · Media studies · Political science · Publishing · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology